Jamaica Labour Party leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness
By Nakinskie Robinson
The governing Jamaica Labour Party has hammered the Integrity Commission for what it says are unwarranted and unrelenting attacks on party leader Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness and the reputation of the government.
It comes on the heels of Tuesday's report by the Integrity Commission which revealed significant irregularities in the development of a property by Estatebridge, a company linked to Prime Minister Holness.
The directors of Estatebridge are Dr. Holness' business partner Norman Brown, Sydjea Anderson and Adam Holness, the son of the prime minister.
The JLP says three times in under two years, the agents within the Commission have "without credible basis attacked the Prime Minister's reputation".
It argues that in February 2023, agents of the Commission caused to be tabled a report in Parliament which suggested that the Prime Minister be charged due to alleged conflict of interest but delayed publishing a ruling by the competent authority that there is no basis for prosecution.
The Prime Minister was also the subject of another parliamentary report in March.
This, the JLP says, was filled with innuendos, misstatements of fact and established no finding of impropriety or illicit enrichment on the part of Prime Minister Holness, notwithstanding a thorough examination of the PM's financial affairs by an independent international forensic accounting examiner.
The party further argues that the third and potentially most egregious attack comes in the form of Tuesday's report.
The governing party says while it takes pride in its contribution to the anti-corruption fight, it has been constrained to make public its view that the Commission has been hijacked by a few agents who are acting unfairly, biased and with malice towards Prime Minister Holness and the duly elected government.
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